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TIL that following the 9/11 attacks, shopping channel QVC replaced their live broadcast with a message telling people to watch the news instead

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5Rb9 TIL Cahokia was the largest city in North America prior to the arrival of Columbus. It rivaled London at the time, and was only surpassed in the 1780’s.
OByR TIL that a Texas Billionaire built a disposal site for radioactive waste over one of the largest reservoirs of fresh water in the south-west of the United States.
wdJY TIL: The US Navy has no illusions about global warming. It has been developing plans for naval operations in an “Ice-Free Arctic” since 2001.
eabn TIL the last cipher from the Zodiac Killer, a 340 character code sent to newspapers in 1969, remains unsolved.
yZyp TIL that as of April 2010, Bill Gates had donated over $36,854,000,000 in his lifetime, which is more than half of his current net worth of $61 billion.